Senior Software Engineer

Purpose of Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Enterprise Integrations team, dedicated to delivering excellent service for our customers.

About You

Working within one of our agile Engineering teams, this role reports to an Engineering Manager. You will collaborate closely with other engineers and product managers to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and well-tested software for our award-winning marketing platform.

You are responsible for writing clean, secure, and well-tested code. You follow best-practice guidelines and contribute to their improvement, ensuring your code is open by default and easily reusable. As part of a team, you will extend, maintain, and operate assigned parts of our platform.

You will coach and mentor more junior colleagues, participate in knowledge-sharing activities within your team and the wider Engineering practice. You will guide your team by establishing standards, best practices, and policies.

You possess a strong understanding of user needs within your service and work with the product owner and other team members to translate these into technical solutions. You will work through the entire lifecycle of a service or product, from understanding requirements and development to deployment, support, and maintenance. You demonstrate an understanding of deadlines, find pragmatic solutions, and are proactive in raising potential risks.

You will help the team solve challenges that arise as our business grows and develops, working collaboratively to ensure the service continues to meet the needs of our business and its customers.

The Team

You will be joining Team Coral in our Advertiser Tribe, part of the Growth Domain. This team is dedicated to providing bespoke solutions to integrate advertiser systems with our own.

As a team responsible for delivering some of the most in-demand features for our customers, you will occasionally have contact with customers to understand their needs and pain points. Your work will be highly visible, and every change you make can have a positive impact on our customers.

Team Coral practices Scrum, and you will have the opportunity to bring new ideas to the team, whether introducing alternative ways to solve problems, enhancing our ways of working, or bringing new insights to your teammates on best practices for new technology.

Along with access to the O’Reilly learning platform, hackathons, and cross-team initiatives, you will have plenty of opportunities to learn and gain experience from people in the many other teams across the engineering department at Awin.

Skills & Expertise

Soft Skills

The technical skills and expertise listed below are as important to us as your soft skills. We are interested in someone who is open, enthusiastic, and interested in positively contributing to the team's culture. We are passionate about continuous improvement and seek someone who can demonstrate a growth mindset and how they have learned from mistakes. In Team Coral, we value everyone’s opinion and experience as much as we value delivery and team cohesion, and we consider a challenge and commit mindset to be crucial to balance these.

Hard Skills

Required

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience in commercial Software Engineering roles.
• Good experience working with front-end code, ideally using Angular.
• Extensive experience in developing cloud software using:
  • AWS services: Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Opensearch
  • Terraform for writing Infrastructure as Code scripts
  • Typescript
  • Java v21 with Maven, and Spring Boot v3 Docker
• Understanding of relational database design principles, SQL query optimization, and proficiency in SQL and non-relational databases like DynamoDB.
• Experience and enthusiasm for using and finding new ways to use AI tools to augment software development practices.
• Experience using Git for source control.
• Passion for writing elegant code and a desire to constantly refactor and improve, with a good understanding of the SOLID principles.
• Expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs within a microservices architecture.
• Ability to conduct a thorough code review process, write unit tests, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiar with agile processes, Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience in monitoring applications (preferably using Cloudwatch and Datadog).

Nice to Have

• Experience with low-latency, high-availability systems.
• Knowledgeable about information security, able to design and implement solutions with mitigation against security threats.
• Knowledge of TDD and Pair Programming practices.
• Experience working with PHP, including building and maintaining web applications.
• Experience with cache solutions such as Redis, Memcached, or other.
• Experience with streaming and queuing solutions (ideally Kafka, Kinesis, or SQS).

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritize your mental health and wellbeing, offering a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions.
• Meal Vouchers: You will be supported with a certain net sum to spend on a variety of lunches.
• Health & Wellbeing: The insurance covers several types of health, vision, and/or dental treatments for you and for up to one additional family member.
• Remote Working Furniture Package: After 3 months of employment, you will be eligible for a furniture package, which should enable you to set up a proper workplace at your remote working location.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social, and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we've had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual 'Life @ Awin' hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world's leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.